banksimple.com

March 9, 2011

Really beautifully simple site. I love the way the site is arranged, the single page works really well here. The fixed header/nav keeps you visually informed of where you are quite nicely and subtly. It’s also very cool to see many of the details being created with CSS, like most of the shapes and event looks like the credit card is done this way too. So cool! The details are just the right amount of crispness and tightness to give it a very trustworthy feel while at the same time looking very modern web wise. I love that contact/beta invite form too, very well done. The design is responsive too, reduce your browser window’s width to check it out. Very very nice!

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Gene Crawford

With over a decade of experience in the industry he has overseen the design and architecture of hundreds of web sites and applications. An active member in the design community, he's the editor & producer of unmatchedstyle.com, the ConvergeSE, ConvergeFL, ConvergeRVA and the Breaking Development conference series.

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The site is a MESS and is mostly unusable if accessed without JavaScript and I consider this as highly unprofessional. What do the nicest design details matter if the most basic functionality isn’t working? And even worse is that it’s not even a website about new, rich, interactive media or a web application, it’s a “simple” bank website (no pun intended but it’s kind of ironic). Do they want to lose clients because their agency or whatever can’t do the job properly?